Ready . . . Aim . . . Mop

As I said to my good friend Paul last week, the solution is simply to give everyone a gun. It's nice to see my position validated by this story out of Montgomery, Alabama:

After a robber cleaned out a Montgomery couple's home, the couple made him clean up—at gunpoint.

When Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned to their Centennial Hill home, the husband and wife discovered that thieves had broke into the Ross Street residence and cleaned the house out of almost everything the family of five owned. . . . Reassuring her that every­thing would be all right, her husband sent her to her sister's home a block away while he inspected the piles of ransacked items.

It was while he was doing this, making his way back into the sunroom, when she said a man walked in the back door, straight into her husband. . . . Adrian McKinnon held the suspect—Tajuan Bullock, 33, of 2963 University Drive—at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until he decided what he was going to do, she said.

"We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor," she said.

Once police arrived, Bul­lock complained to them about being forced at gun­point to clean up the home.

Full story from the Montgomery Advertiser

The AP gave this story the lighthearted "news of the weird" treatment, but it actually is quite sad. The burglars not only took every piece of furniture, electronics, and clothing but even the pots and pans from the kitchen and the children's clothes and toys.

But good Americans will go to great lengths to defend their Second Amendment right to force people to clean their homes at gunpoint. Let me simply point out that Google returns:

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,890,000 for clean my house or I'll blow your head off. (0.30 seconds)

This weekend you can have the ball when you pry it from my red-hot shooting hand. Let me know if you aim to play at St. John's tomorrow. We tip off at 8:00 a.m., as usual.